Tool holder



June 16, 1925. 1,542,694

- M. A. GOWING TOOL HOLDER Filed Jan. 30, 1924 Mare/rial,-

Patented June 16, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,5425% PATENT caries;

A. GOWING, OF LPOR' ILAND, OBEGON..

I i irooLIioLnnaQ Application filedlanuary 30,1924. "se ial No. 689,516;

To all whome't may concern;

Beit known thatI, MILTON A. GOWING,

a citizen of the United'States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State ofOr'egon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool Holders,

A- further objecta the inventions to provide aholderfofthe class describedfthat may be folded when; not in use and maintained in disuse within convenient position for instant service. i o 1 A still further object of the invention is the provision of simple and practical devices for securing the egg-beater or other device in relatively rigid condition in its operative positions.

It is the province of my invention to improve generally the class of devices to which it appertains and particularly to tool-holders of the type described. I

The invention consists in the novel con struction and adaptation of a supporter for tools, and in the combination of parts and devices for carrying out the above named and other objects,to be more fully described r in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1"is' a View in side elevation of an embodiment of my invention in folded condition.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the holder in operative position and sustaining an egg-beater. r.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my invention on an enlarged scale in its open condition to receive a tool.

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view in side elevation, partly broken away at its middle characters of reference indicate like parts in.

spectively.

the several'views, the reference numeral '10 indicates a backboard of rectangular 0011- figuration having opposite flat-plane faces Hand 12 on its upper and lower sides, re-

Sa1d back-board is secured at one end 13 ton wall 14 or other'rigid support by a hinge 15 so that it may be swung either up or down accordlng to the manner in which the hinge is disposed to lie closely in parallel planes with the wall when not 1n use, as shown in Fig. 1, or extended out- Fig. 2. y g

A clamping strip. 16 is rigidly secured at one'end, as by screws 17, to the lower side wardly in a 'horizontalplane, as seen in 12 of the board adjacent its end 13 and extends parallel with and for the approximate length of the board. At the outer end of theboard the strip is unconfined and being deslrably formed of' spring-like material,

. such as metal or wood of suitable variety it maybe readily separated from the board at its outerend 19 to receive the handle of the tool, as will be explained. Said strip is of relatively wide dimensions to fill the handopening of the handle 28 of the tool to be held thereby.

A gripping-bar 20 is rigidly secured at right angles to the under side of said strip 16, and a complementary bar 21 is hingedly connected thereto at one end, as at 22. Said bars .may be secured in spaced relation when in use by a U-shaped clip 23 pivoted upon the opposite end of the bar 20.

Upon the under side of the back-board "28 of the tool.

' An egg-beater of a well-known type is shown in the drawings to illustrate the in vention and in describing the manner of its =use such an appliance willbe utilized as typical. I

With the holder secured to the wall in hinged condition in the manner described and at a suitable height above a table or bench, designated at 26, to maintain the eggbeater in vertical plane when in operative position and at right angles to the board 10, the looped handle-28 of the beater is passed over the free end 19 of the clamping strip 16 and with the gripping-bar 21 thrown back, as illustrated in Fig. 3, it is slid along said'strip until the upper edge of the beater handle 28 is lodged in the groove 25. The

gripping member 21 is then swung forwardly and the shank 30 of the beater is gripped between the bars 20 and 21 and thus secured by the U-shaped clip 23. The assembled device is thereupon swung torwardly and downwardly to dispose the "lower end of the beater within a bowl or .pan 31 upon the table whereupon the functions of the beater may be conveniently per formed.

The left hand of the operator grasps the end 18 of the back-board andthe end 19 of the strip and thus firmly presses the portion 28 of the beater-handle within the groove 25 to secure the upper end of the beater rigidly while the grip of the bars 20 and 21 upon opposite sides of the handle maintains the heater in rigid perative relation approximately right angles to the backboard. The beater naybeused with ease and satisfactory results as it is secured in an efiicient .manner and cannot slip about the bowl at its lower end nor shift about at its upper end as 1susuallythe case when the beater is held in the hands of the operator.

The beater maybe quickly removed from the holder and the latter may then be swung ,against the wall to remain out of the way until needed for use again.

%It'is}evident that my invention is adapted as a support for a considerable class of tools in addition to egg-heaters, and particularly for drills for wood or metal, and any such adaptation and such modifications of design as maybe made within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the claims are deemed as being within the bounds of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim, is

1. A tool-holder of the class described consisting in a back-member hingedly connected to a support, a strip connected at one'end to said member and separable at its opposite end therefrom to receive a toolhandle therebetween, and a pair of separable gripping-bars for the shank of said tool; one of said bars beingsecured to said strip and the other bar being'hingedly connected to the secured bar.

2. A tool-holder or" the class described, consisting in a back-board hingedly connected to a support and having a tool-receiving groove in its lower side, a. resilient strip secured at one end to said back board andadapted to press the handle of a tool within said groove, and a pair of bars mounted on said strip .ifor securin the shank of said tool against side deflection.

Signed at Portland, Oregon, this 15th day of January, 1924.

'MILTON A. 'GO'WING. 

